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trill

/tril/US // trɪl //UK // (trɪl) //

颤音,颤动,颤抖,颤振

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to sing or play with a vibratory or quavering effect.
    • : Phonetics. to produce with a trill.
    • : to sing or utter in a succession of rapidly alternating sounds.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to resound vibrantly, or with a rapid succession of sounds, as the voice, song, or laughter.
    • : to utter or make a sound or succession of sounds resembling such singing, as a bird, frog, grasshopper, or person laughing.
    • : to execute a shake or trill with the voice or on a musical instrument.
    • : Phonetics. to execute a trill, especially with the tongue, as while singing, talking, or whistling.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or sound of trilling.
    • : Music. a rapid alternation of two adjacent tones; a shake.
    • : a similar sound, or succession of sounds, uttered or made by a bird, an insect, a person laughing, etc.
    • : Phonetics. a sequence of repetitive, rapid, vibratory movements produced in any free articulator or membrane by a rush of air expelled from the lungs and often causing a corresponding sequence of contacts between the vibrating articulator and another organ or surface.a speech sound produced by such a trill.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • I speak to him in Korean, and I interpret his trills as Korean responses.

  • The collection included t-shirts featuring street wear brand Been Trill, jeans, and hoodies.

  • Even assuming full extension of Bush tax cuts, which add their own $5 trillion or so to the deficit, Romney adds another $3 trill.

  • If it passed the inspection, he would nod contentedly, trill out a gay refrain, and replace it on the easel for further study.

  • A trill, or rapid reiteration of two notes comprehending an interval not greater than one whole tone, nor less than a semitone.

  • Then from somewhere above him came such a trill of demoniacal laughter as chilled his blood.

  • My comrade sings in such a way that I am sure the nightingales outside will cease to trill from pure envy.

  • Some singers have this gift; Mme. Melba is one who never had to study a trill, for she was born with a nightingale in her throat.